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Up below we live - The Irish relationship with death and the finest writers,...
Myself and Paddy Kavanagh on the banks of the canal (Photo: Jim Lowney)While heading out the door to a photo shoot recently, Honey Badger asked with a worried face, “Are you alright?”Apart from being...
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A weapon of war plays romance - how a police pipe band helped me find my wife...
The Union County Police and Fire Pipes and DrumsWe run into each other socially often, but Arthur Hynes knows he will usually see me in his shop near three set dates each yearThe gentleman from the...
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Watching the GAA All Ireland final over breakfast - a constant celebration of...
Fixed intensity - sipping coffee and watching the All-Ireland (Photo: Jim Lowney)It’s still halfway to St Patrick’s Day I suppose it truly never ends We are always having some sort of Irish celebration...
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'Tis the season - half-way to St Patrick's Day, All-Ireland final, and the...
Enjoying the craic at the Irish Festival on the Jersey Shore (Photo: Jim Lowney)So it begins again, sure as Christmas arrives each December It’s Irish Season in New JerseyThis time of year is not to be...
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Chasing Irish sports in New Jersey - trials and tribulations of being a GAA...
All-Ireland Kilkenny v Galway - watching from afarRattigan, the Galway man, will give me an earful when we next meet“We come out and support Mayo,” he barked at me Saturday evening “You can at least...
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Travel tips for coming home to Ireland at Christmas
Celebrating Christmas in Ireland So far, I’ve yet to miss having a Christmas with my family In 2002 my mother moved back to Irelandwith my siblings (two brothers, one sister) while I stayed on in...
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The Gathering Ireland Launches At Guinness Storehouse
Pat Kenny interviews Minister Leo Varadkar Image: Mark Stedman/Photocall IrelandOn Tuesday 3rd of December the team at The Gathering Dublin went to the Guinness Storehouse, the brand home of the famous...
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The Gathering Dublin responds to Gabriel Byrne's 'scam' remarks
Irish actor and former ambassador for culture, Gabriel Byrne, has called The Gathering a 'scam'Photo by Time OutFirst of all, it’s hard to write about Irish actor Gabriel Byrne’s recent comments...
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Trying To Get Fit In the Winter With The Gathering Dublin
It’s starting to get cold in South Dublin so to prepare for the encroaching frost I’ve bought two bags of coal and started watching YouTube videos on how to twist sheets of newspapers into kindling...
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Merry Christmas From Ulster Club Donegal Town Rugby Christmas Jumper Party
A superb evening of Festive fun at Donegal Town rugby clubOn a cold winter night the club hosted their ever successful Christmas party with a Christmas jumper theme to add that extra touch of fun Local...
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Ulster Rugby v Leinster Rugby - OK SO THIS WILL BE THE GREATEST FIGHT I THE...
Everyone in Ireland is talking about Ulster Rugby, everyone in the rugby world is talking about Ulster Rugby With a devastating and massively powerful display against Northampton Saints in the Heineken...
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Candied peel - making your own to give those warm citrus notes to your...
Candied peelCandied peel is what gives Christmas baking it's warm citrussy notes What you buy rarely compares to what you can make yourself at home and it's really easyLast year I made loads and put it...
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Her shell - Sausage the pig's journey from the farm to the butchers
Rasher getting to know little pigThe day came I was dreading and to be honest I didn't know if I could go through with it Sausage the pig had reached weight far quicker than I had anticipated The...
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Days in November and baking for Christmas - mincemeat recipe for perfect...
Delicious Christmas mince piesA typical November day, cold but not freezing, some sprinkles of rain after a deluge the night before, slightly grey but with a hint of sun trying to squeeze through...
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Everybody Cooks - cookbooks should be about real cooks and not stylized...
Lovely photo but what IS the cake?When REM wrote their hit Everybody Hurts they could equally have called it everybody cooks judging by the amount of celebrity cook books on the market This market...
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Ireland's Brighton -- The fashionable seaside resort of Bray filled with bars...
BrayLess than 13 miles from the centre of Dublin is Ireland's original seaside resort Bray is a fine town straddling the Dublin Wicklow border In 1854 the railway was built out as far as, what had...
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Waste not want not - throwing out food in a culture of fear
The best before on this is August 2003Apparently we consumers throw out on average 30% of the food we buy in supermarkets to the value of €1000 a year A pretty staggering statistic if it is multiplied...
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The 'Eye' in Pig - looking your free range pig in the eye before they land on...
Rasher and Sausage, two rare breed Middle White pigs'A cat will look down to a man A dog will look up to a man But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal'(Winston Churchill)Meet...
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The old tradition of the Irish town butchers -- Judge your butcher on the...
Lean and red meat only in the butcher's shopThe local butcher shop used to be an integral part of every town and village in Ireland and there was usually more than one In Northern Ireland very often...
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Loving Languedoc - the Irish foodie falls for delicious tastes of France
Jarret de veauIf someone asked me to close my eyes and describe the Languedoc region of France, this is the image which comes to mindPlane trees (Platanus occidentalis) growing along roadsides with...
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